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Best city to lose your wallet

  • 25-09-2013 02:10PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭positron


    Reader's Digest dropped 12 wallets in a number of cities to see how many will be returned, and the results are kinda interesting (warning - crappy multi-page slideshow-y item).

    http://www.rd.com/slideshows/most-honest-cities-lost-wallet-test

    Most honest is Helsinki, Finland, and second most honest - Mumbai, India, and Spain and Portugal at the bottom of the table (most dishonest).

    What are the chances of getting a wallet back if you lose it in Dublin? I would have thought Dublin would rank on the top 10, ahead of London.

    Discuss.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Depends if its north or south of the liffey :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Depends if its north or south of the liffey :-)

    *Grabs popcorn*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭Ould Mr Brennan


    Depends on if I find it or not ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Depends on who found it first - a banker or a homeless person.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    good sample size


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Depends if its north or south of the liffey :-)

    I agree. You'd more than likely get a wallet returned if dropped in Malahide, as opposed to Dolphins Barn or Tallaght. I presume that what you mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    This annoys me.

    I remember being out in town one night and heading back to a house for a party. One of our mates came in with a mobile phone and said he had found it in the nightclub we were in.

    He was planning to keep it but I took the phone off him, rang the last dialled contact and told them we had the phone. That if they could advise the person who owns it to ring we can arrange to give it back the next day.

    The owner rang and we agreed to meet the next day to return it. She was delighted.

    Ps. Not saying we didn't have any craic with the phone. One of the lads stripped down covering his bits with just a santy hat and we took about 10 pictures of him with the phone in various positions.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    positron wrote: »


    I would have thought Dublin would rank on the top 10, ahead of London.

    You must be fúcking joking.

    All over America you can put coins into street vending machines to buy a daily newspaper. They'd all be smashed up and stolen on the first day in Ireland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭SherlockWatson


    Depends on who found it first - a banker or a homeless person.

    Banker more likely to keep it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭positron


    Depends on who found it first - a banker or a homeless person.

    Yep, bankers are greedy bast*rds.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin




  • Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    People thought that a about the dublinbikes before they were implemented but it never happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I've lost my wallet 3 times in Dublin over the course of my lengthy drinking years...
    each time I got it back!
    Once by post - person who found it sent it to the company who issued my work security swipe card that was in the wallet... the sent in on.
    Once the person actually called to my door (found name in phonebook).
    Other time it was left into Garda station.

    pretty lucky sod I am! :D

    As good karma, if I ever find anything I try to find the owner / give to the guards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Dick Turnip


    Banker more likely to keep it.

    If this was QI there would be a siren going off right now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Jason Todd


    I travelled up to Dublin (from Waterford) near Christmas a good few years back (2003) with a wallet stuffed full of notes ready to get in some serious presents shopping.

    Long story short, was getting on a Dublin Bus, paid the driver and must have dropped my wallet near the base of the stairs when going up top. Next minute a girl popped her head up at the top of the stairs, spotted me and waved the wallet at me. She must have seen the completely confused look on my face so she said, "I think you dropped something". I was so shocked I barely got out a heartfelt thank you when she handed it back to me.

    So if that was you, and you're reading this... THANKS! :)

    I was young enough at the time, and had heard horror stories about muggers, junkies etc in Dublin, so had my preconceptions smashed minutes after getting off the train!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭SherlockWatson


    If this was QI there would be a siren going off right now.

    So you disagree then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭positron


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    You must be fúcking joking.

    No, I do think Dublin would do better than London. Like others have already pointed out - Dublin Bikes etc.

    I personally have pointed out / called people back to pick up their wallets from shop counters (Centra/Spar etc) twice in last three months. And my own good experience is that I left my motorcycle parked up on a busy side walk in north inner city street and accidentally left the keys in the ignition in full view of anyone walking by - for the whole day! Twice!! And each times the bike was not nicked - someone handed in the keys to a nearby shop and they returned it to me. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    This annoys me.

    I remember being out in town one night and heading back to a house for a party. One of our mates came in with a mobile phone and said he had found it in the nightclub we were in.

    He was planning to keep it but I took the phone off him, rang the last dialled contact and told them we had the phone. That if they could advise the person who owns it to ring we can arrange to give it back the next day.

    The owner rang and we agreed to meet the next day to return it. She was delighted.

    Ps. Not saying we didn't have any craic with the phone. One of the lads stripped down covering his bits with just a santy hat and we took about 10 pictures of him with the phone in various positions.

    That's one of the gayest things I've read on here. :D


    The rest of your post implies you're sound so I feel a little bad pointing this out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tbh it's not the "best city" at all.
    It's best out of a number of large cities (some capitals, some not) that doesn't particularly represent the country as a whole.
    And there's a pretty heavy bias toward Europe.
    I suppose this "investigation" was just a fun thing for American tourists to know when they travel overseas.

    In this one some are again mentioned, which gives them credit.
    http://www.tourism-review.com/top-10-most-honest-cities-in-the-world-news1231


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,158 ✭✭✭Arawn


    I was in letterkenny for a while, in the space of 2 weeks i lost my expensive phone and my wallet while going to pay house rent for the month, got both back in the next day. Donegal people are fair nice


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,255 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Concarneau. My wife dropped her purse there, full of holiday money, and when we went to the local police station to report it missing some locals were handing it in.

    I found a purse full of holiday money in LVSC a few years' back and it was returned to its owner intact.

    There are honest people everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭TheGoldenAges


    Left my wallet on the bus over the summer, never saw it again :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭sparkthatbled


    I found a wallet recently in the car park of balbriggan market. Dropped it into the Garda station and turns out he had been in an hour before to report it missing/presumed stolen. I think it's the only decent thing to do and maybe some nice karma will come my way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    You must be fúcking joking.

    All over America you can put coins into street vending machines to buy a daily newspaper. They'd all be smashed up and stolen on the first day in Ireland

    Yes just like all the city bikes where. Oh wait no...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭meemeemee


    I read the story. The Daily Mail reports that the wallet had contact details.

    In the UK, there is a law called " Theft By Finding ".

    That means if you " Find " something, and their is reasonably good reason to be able to identify the owner, and you keep that item, that is Theft. So were there to be say a Driving Licence, or Bank Card, or other item which could lead to identifying the person who lost it, and therefore that would open the possibility to getting it back to them, that is "theft".

    A couple of years ago, one of those small branches of Tescos had it's freezers break down. The staff threw out all of the frozen food into a bin. Some enterprising locals, spotting the stuff in the bin, retrieved it. I was in bins ! The Police were called, they were arrested and charged with "Theft By Finding". Absolutely riduclous !

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357741/In-court-charged-theft-finding-woman-took-food-Tesco-bin.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I know a girl who lives in Singapore and she says she feels sorry for any Singaporean who goes to another country, for example they would leave their laptop in a cafe for an hour while they went wandering around shops and it would be there when they got back because crime is so low as to be non existent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    You must be fúcking joking.

    All over America you can put coins into street vending machines to buy a daily newspaper. They'd all be smashed up and stolen on the first day in Ireland

    People said the same about the Dublin bike scheme.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    I've lost my wallet 3 times in Dublin over the course of my lengthy drinking years...
    each time I got it back!
    Once by post - person who found it sent it to the company who issued my work security swipe card that was in the wallet... the sent in on.
    Once the person actually called to my door (found name in phonebook).
    Other time it was left into Garda station.

    pretty lucky sod I am! :D

    As good karma, if I ever find anything I try to find the owner / give to the guards.

    This post makes me happy, maybe even brightened up my day.

    Don't know why, but it did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,917 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Lost my wallet in Japan leaving a train station. Wasn't even concerned about it not being handed in - sure enough it was there an hour later.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Nothing would surprise me about Dublin. They'd have the wheels of a Jumbo if it flew too low.


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